Yang Xin thought about it, no longer hesitated, and said: "Two brothers, we don't care about the others, everyone goes their own way, now open the city gate and escape." ”

Yang Xin didn't expect that so many people would escape, and it was reasonable to think about it, but he instinctively felt that Li Yan was so laissez-faire that Ximen would not be left alone, there must be a conspiracy here.

As for the specific situation, he didn't think of it yet, anyway, it was impossible for Li Yan not to know, and if he handed over the West Gate to the guards of the new army, there must be a lot of people who escaped.

Xu Sheng was still in a daze, and Yang Xin had already ordered to set off and pulled him out.

Soon, the city gate creaked open, and more than 100 people brought by Yang Xin converged with Xu Sheng, Bai Youcai and other 100 households in the three camps, and more than 200 people, and quickly went out of the city!

The nearly 3,000 people guarding the city saw that as soon as the city gate opened, they also dispersed in a hurry, and crowded to the city gate with their families who were hiding in the city gate building.

The city gate was crowded in an instant, fortunately everyone was whispering, and no one was stupid enough to make a loud noise, but the people who were hiding near the city gate sent people to keep an eye near the city gate, and when they arrived at the third watch, they couldn't help but walk out of the hidden place and rush to the city gate.

Tens of thousands of people went out of the city, not like fleeing at this time, but more like refugees fleeing, dragging their families one by one, pushing wheelbarrows, carrying burdens, and many driving carriages, mules, carts, and ox carts, like ghosts in the night, all of them came out at once.

Later, even many people near the West Gate heard the movement and began to pack up and flee for their lives, fleeing at least thousands of people, and the West Gate was already in a state of complete loss of control.

In the dark night, the crowd is full of shadows and shadows, endlessly.

……

In the early morning of the next day, Li Yan personally led 5,000 battalions of men and horses, as well as more than 500 veterans of the Dashun Army to the West Gate.

"Report to the marshal, there are still thousands of people fleeing at the city gate, do you want to close the city gate?"

Li Yan shook his head and said, "No, wait for the people for half an hour, and then close the city gate, and no one will leave the city!" ”

Then he turned back to Li Mao, the commander of the fifth battalion, and said: "Let's go, let's go to the city to set up defenses first!" ”

Li Mao looked at the people in front of him and said: "Is the marshal too merciful this time, the number of new troops fleeing this time is not less than 10,000, and our strength in defending the city has been greatly reduced, and the next battle may not be easy to deal with." ”

Li Yan said with a wry smile: "The twisted melons are not sweet, they have no intention of defending the city, and staying in the city will only waste food, and if they are strictly controlled, they will mutini and surrender to the Manchus, Marshal Ben will let them live, as for whether they can avoid the pursuit of the Qing army, it depends on their creation!" ”

When Li Mao heard this, he suddenly thought of something, and his eyes suddenly lit up, but he didn't say it.

He had already figured it out that Li Yan's move could not only eliminate internal troubles and reduce food consumption, but there were no recruits to resell grain in the past two days, and there were signs of food shortage again, so food was a big problem for them.

The most important thing is that these fleeing soldiers can contain a part of the Manchu army, and tens of thousands of soldiers flee out of the city.

……

Xishan, Zhaojiazhuang, and Prince Azig of Heshuoying were sleeping soundly in the camp tent with two robbed Han women, and the soldiers outside the tent came to report.

Azig was naturally very unhappy when he was woken up, rubbed his sleepy eyes and sat up, and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

"Back to the prince, the scouts in front came to report, Ximen escaped tens of thousands of Shun troops, and there were eight or nine thousand people who fled together, and the forward General Bai Guangen asked, do you want to intercept them?"

The herald was already in a cold sweat at this time, and he didn't know if the prince would fire him to wake him up, but this military situation was too big, and he didn't dare to delay time.

Azig suddenly came to his senses, thought for a moment, and asked, "How are these Dashun army equipment?" Is it the main force of the enemy? ”

The herald was even more panicked, and said in a trembling voice: "I can't see clearly in the night, I only know that there are more than 10,000 people with weapons, but the team is very messy, so it must not be the main force......

"Presumably?"

Azig was furious, kicked over, and scolded: "Can you fight by guessing? ”

The herald was kicked and his nose was bruised and his face was swollen, and he hurriedly kowtowed and begged for mercy, saying: "The minions are incompetent, please forgive the master!" ”

Azig scolded: "Useless things, go, tell Bai Guangen, take two thousand cavalry to follow behind secretly, and wait for them to run away and chase after dawn!" ”

On the other hand, he also said: "Will this Bai Guangen fight in the end, and still intercept and kill?" With your interception, which Dashun army will dare to escape in the future? Wouldn't it be better to chase after you? None of them can escape! ”

The West Gate did not have the Qing army to besiege the city, but it does not mean that the West Gate is safe, and there are more than 10,000 cavalry ambushed in the West Mountain, and the leading general is Azig, who is waiting for the Dashun army to escape from the city and chase and kill.

Yang Xin, who was on the road, didn't say a word, and the uneasiness in his heart became stronger and stronger, he never understood why his gang would escape so easily, but he didn't know that he had fallen into a huge danger.

In order to avoid being ambushed by the Qing army, he deliberately slowed down and let many soldiers from the third battalion go in front of them, but after walking for more than an hour, there was still no movement, neither Li Yan's pursuers nor the ambush of the Qing army, as if the world had forgotten them.

But he seemed to have figured it out, and suddenly, Yang Xin stopped and waved his big hand: "Stop advancing!" ”

……

Mo Shoudao is a new army hundred households in the second battalion of the Beida Battalion of the Dashun Army, and after fleeing for his life overnight, he was also exhausted at this time.

"Brother Su, sit down and rest, you can bear it, your sister-in-law and niece can't bear it!"

He shouted at Su Baicheng not far away.

Su Baicheng is also a new army hundred, but he is from the third battalion, they met in Temple Street when they were selling grain with Yang Xin, and the two were like-minded and became friends.

This time, Su Baicheng also sent someone to inform him overnight, so that Mo Shoudao could escape from the capital with more than 20 members of his subordinates.

Su Baicheng panted and walked to Mo Shoudao's side, sat down, and said, "Brother Mo, where did you say this Yang Xin went?" Everyone said they would go with him together, but he was good, he left without saying a word, and he couldn't find him all the way! ”

Along the way, almost all the hundred households were looking for Yang Xin, but few people had seen him.

Mo Shoudao said: "Find a fart, now it's my father and mother who are married, everyone takes care of everyone, I don't think this Yang Xin is anything great, it's just a little business-minded, and he himself is not running for his life like us!" ”

Su Baicheng smiled slightly, and said: "I can't say that, the musketeers he trained are still quite decent, let's not think about it, he at least has a team of musketeers, and there are more than 100 households who go with him, and there is also a response along the way." ”